Chapterhouse: Dune

Dune #6

by Frank Herbert

Hardcover, 436 pages

English language

Published June 30, 1987 by Ace Books.

ISBN:: 978-0-441-10267-9
OCLC Number:: 1104811447

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Frank Herbert's Final Novel in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. The remnants of the Old Empire have been consumed by the violent matriarchal cult known as the Honored Matres. Only one faction remains a viable threat to their total conquest—the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune’s power. Under the leadership of Mother Superior Darwi Odrade, the Bene Gesserit have colonized a green world on the planet Chapterhouse and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. And once they’ve mastered breeding sandworms, the Sisterhood will control the production of the greatest commodity in the known galaxy—the spice melange. But their true weapon remains a man who has lived countless lifetimes—a man who served under the God Emperor Paul Muad’Dib....

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4 stars

In the final book by Frank Herbert in the Dune saga, we follow the trials and tribulations of the Bene Gesserit. They are up against extinction by the Honored Matres. A faction returning from the Scattering with only one goal in mind: destruction.

Throughout the book we learn what motivates the different factions and the people in those factions. This all concludes in a big face-off between the two sisterhoods. And ends in a giant cliffhanger.

The style of this book is exactly the same as previous books. It has parts that tend to drag on just a little too long and a few pages later it has you turning pages as fast as possible.

It's a great continuation of the story, but it is most definitely not a conclusion. In fact, there's a lot of hinting at what could happen next, which kind of got on my nerves by the end of the book.

There's also Scytale which seems like a completely superfluous character with no real development throughout the book. Although he gets quite a number of pages in the book. I suppose this is a setup for later books which never got written (or maybe Brian Herbert did? I will need to find out)

This book will really get you interested in the Dune universe and where it's heading. It saddens me that there are only two books chronologically after this one and they are not by Frank Herbert himself.